An audio codec employing lossy compression, used for many consumer audio storage and playback devices.

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Are there any audible differences between 192 and 320 kbit/s .mp3 files?

This is a question that's currently being discussed on skeptics.stackexchange. It was thought reasonable to get some input from the audio experts. So with the author's permission I'm posting it here. ...
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portable player to replace minidisc

I've been using minidisc players for the last decade. Since that technology is as good as dead, and so will by my last player soon, I'm in the market for the latest and greatest portable music player ...
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Re-encoding MP3 reduces quality

If we have an MP3 file and we decode it to an uncompressed WAV file and then later encode it to MP3 again at the same sample rate - why is it that the quality gets degraded? This is a past exam ...